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08-18-2012, 08:19 AM
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mpol writes "Sergei from MariaDB speculated on some changes within MySQL 5.5.27. It seems new testcases aren't included with MySQL any more, which leaves developers depending on it in the cold. 'Does this mean that test cases are no longer open source? Oracle did not reply to my question. But indeed, there is evidence that this guess is true. For example, this commit mail shows that new test cases, indeed, go in this "internal" directory, which is not included in the MySQL source distribution.' On a similar note, updates for the version history on Launchpad are not being updated anymore. What is Oracle's plan here? And is alienating the developer community just not seen as a problem at Oracle?" http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Is+MySQL+Slowly+Turning+Closed+Source% 3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FS3OkIF) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F12%2F08%2F18%2F0152237%2Fis-mysql-slowly-turning-closed-source%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dface book) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/08/18/0152237/is-mysql-slowly-turning-closed-source?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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